Except for a few pieces of slot car track this clearly reminds me of the old original Tyco slot cars and train set that I got for Christmas back in the 60's .
watching this brings back some old memories when my dad and i would race on my aurora track and play with my train of course mine weren't the same scale but was just as much fun that was fifty years ago
Tyco had this in 1972. If you want to make it more fun with the train, reverse the power feed polarity on one slot so they will drive in opposite directions. Yeah you must cut and solder two wires under the power interface slot track piece, but it is definitely worth it.
Every single Life-Like slot car i've ever had for no reason just dies and never works right again. But strangely every single Life-Like locomotive i've had never quits on me. I still have the parts from that exact set in the video from like a decade ago lol
***** you know it.....when i did mine though i made the train tracks longer so it would take longer for the train to cross, kinda gave it that realistic look....like the way a real crossing looks
Maniac4Bricks we used to be able to go to toys-r-us in the late 70s early 80s and buy sets like this all day long Tyco train and afx cars not that expensive either
here is what I would do....build a scale layout & get a lot of these crossings..buy lots of gates ..paint the road a scale color & then my layout would be amazing.....have a huge car track with many crossings multiple tracks and yeahhh...I would make the car speed as scale as possible...by putting a stopper under the throttle button on the car thing..so cars are not going 10000mph scale
Note. If the railroad cars had more weight according to the NMRA standards then the slot cars would not derail the train easily. Also this is more of an starter HO Scale toy train set to get kids into the hobby of model trains. I have more of the higher end model trains since I've been in the hobby for an while. Also most of the higher end model trains have better weights in them but too you don't want to crash them. =^.^=
Shame there isn't a company that makes proper HO scale slot cars and crossings, I mean they had them in the 1960's, they could probably make 1/87 scale slot that run a lot smoother now.
Life like still makes the crossing. Tyco made one from the 70s to the 90s. I have adapters and can mix different brands of slot car tracks. Life like, autoworld, and Tyco
@@Jaabo37 I know they have slot car crosings for HO scale train track, but the slot cars themselves are not HO scale (1:87). Still looks really fun though, if I had the space I would buy a set for sure!
+Bassotronics I find it strange on our videos of the Tyco version that people are actually offended by it. It iskind of funny that people are so offended they use profanity and say mean things. Ive deleted those. People are so hypocritical
***** I know what you mean. But it's strange a Ho scale set like this would be made with high speeding cars heading towards a moving train. The train must be designed to take hits because it will start breaking in pieces as time goes by. , I know it's a fun toy and all but the message is kinda evil. lol
+Bassotronics lol! Yes - that locomotive is not weighted very much so the cars actually knock it over. Some of my others are so heavy the cars just bounce off.
Truthfully, I liked 1960s Aurora cars better. They were slower and realistic. Atlas had an Oldsmobile that went even slower. It was so nice. I still got it.
One of our all time favorite series! I’ve been watching for about 26 years 😃. I am partial to Joel’s work on the show ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jsiGYYtDTCk.html
omg awesome i would love to get a criss cross track so me and myt frieinds can hqve a ho car ho train crossi g it has been so hard this is what i want for christmas
They should of designed with a jump in stead of a rail crossing. See who can jump over the moving train. A jump would have been more appealing to the kids. Like, who wants to purposely wants to crash in the train? It's like having a constant malfunction.
Can u plz tell me where u got tht from n can i buy it on ebay? If so plz plz answer this n whn/ if u do thn i got all notifications on for this so ill be able to see tht u commented on it
I bought it at a store called Bargain Hunt. Until recently, a local hobby shop called Blue Ox Trains had it, but he has just sold it. It came out in 2011.
Man! Where did you get that blue and yellow Santa Fe engine? I had one exactly like it back in the late 60's, made by Tyco, and I would love to find another one.
Quick one for anybody that can help: Does slot cars exist in N scale so it matches perfectly N scale train layouts and is there a way to control the speed like you can with trains? I want to integrate car traffic into my train layout, just wondering if this is doable. Thanks a lot in advance!
I have not seen that and really the “HO” slot cars we have aren’t not really to scale - they are a bit too big. It would be amazing to today that though! Usually when I’ve seen things moving at a very small scale it’s done with magnets
Get a clue? This came out in 2011. Did you have a time traveling Delorean. Oh wait...time travel is impossible. If you had a slot car and train set in 1985 it was NOT this one. It was likely Tyco. YOU GET A CLUE
